Local date: Saturday (March 22) at the Mezzanine in San Francisco. Visit www.mezzaninesf.com for more details.

The skinny: Once you get past vocalist Dave Wakeling, itâ€™s pretty much impossible to name a single member of the current band. No disrespect intended to former Beat Ranking Roger, but the lineup isnâ€™t all that important. What really matters is that this legendary 2 Tone ska band still plays â€œSave It for Later,â€ â€œTwist and Crawlâ€ and â€œTenderness.â€ All of those tunes caused the crowd at SXSW to break out in mad skanking and pogoing. Is the English Beat worth seeing in concert in 2008? Oh, yeah, mon.